288 NOCTUID^. 



antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved above inner margin; claviform usually rather large, defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown and grey centres and 

 grey annuli, defined by the cell before and between them being 

 black ; an indistinct, waved, oblique line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined 

 by a series of small dark dentate marks before it and the area 

 beyond it being dark ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous brown, more strongly in female ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 point. 



Hah. Alps of France ; Switzerland, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; 

 Germany, Silesia ; Hungary ; Scandinavia, Lapland, Leech Coll. ; 

 KussiA, Zeller Coll., Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, 

 Ala Tau, Issyk Kul, Alexander Mts., 1 (^ , 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, 

 Hi : E. Siberia, Kentei, Amurland. Eccp. 32-40 millim. 



*514. Euxoa neotelis. (Plate LXV. fig. 32.) 



Carneades neotelis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 446 (1900). 



Eed-brown, more or less shaded with ash-grey ; frons with black 

 transverse line ; antennae with dingy red, yellowish or grey tuft at 

 base ; tegulse with deep brown medial line, edged with grey above ; 

 a yellowish or grey tuft at origin of fore wing ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales. Fore wing with the markings somewhat interrupted ; 

 subbasal line double, black, filled in with yellowish, interrupted at 

 cell ; antemedial line double, brown or black, the inner part less 

 distinct, oblique, excurved in interspaces ; claviform small or 

 moderate, incompletely defined by black : orbicular large, elliptical, 

 oblique, grey defined by black ; reniform large, broad, extending 

 below cell, with pale aunulus defined by black, its outer part tinged 

 with yellowish, its lower with fuscous ; the cell before and between 

 the stigmata blackish; a slight medial shade from cell- to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, waved, blackish, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the outer part less 

 distinct ; subterminal line yellowish, irregular, interrupted, some- 

 times reduced to diffused scales, usually defined on inner side by 

 dark spots and a more distinct shade at costa, the area beyond it 

 somewhat darker except at apes ; a terminal, somewhat lunulate, 

 black line and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing white 

 tinged with fuscous in male, darker and with a yellowish tinge in 

 female, the veins, a discoidal lunule, and the terminal area darker ; 

 the underside dirty white to dusky grey with dark irroration, a 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman {Piper), Colorado {Bruce). 

 Exp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a 

 photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



